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Amazon Web Services in Greece, meet up #2

Almost 5 months after the first AWS meetup in Greece, I would like to announce the second one. This time we will also have Simone Brunozzi (@simon) with us, who is an Amazon Web Services Evangelist. A lot to be discussed like the AWS management console, the reserved...

Amazon ec2 Europe

Amazon just updated their feature guide to include information related to the launch of European ec2 regions. This is something highly anticipated by many companies in Europe. We will be deploying both Magnet commerce and Zuni greek social network on the cloud during...

Tutorial: Running a php/mySQL server on EC2 with EBS

Last week I did a presentation on Amazon Web Services meet up in Greece. During the presentation I showed how you can start an AMI of fedora 8 base, install apache, php and mySQL and make them all store their data on an EBS volume. This attracted a lot of attention...

Microsoft launches Azure, a cloud computing platform

Cloud computing is one of the hottest industries right now. There are several companies already offering services like Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Slicehost, Gogrid and Aptana. Today Microsoft launched Azure, a cloud for applications designed for Microsoft Products....

Great news for EC2!

Today is a big day for EC2. Many great things happened: * Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone. * There’s now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2. * Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2. * Microsoft SQL Server is...

Amazon web services meet up

During the last open coffee event in Athens, Jason really inspired us with his speech. His most valuable advice for us was to team up and create new start ups. He mentioned a few tools that can be used to have a web company up and running with almost zero cost. One of...